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Per Olov Enquist
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Name: Per Olov ENQUIST Nationality: Swedish Born: 23 September 1934 Died: 25 April 2020 Awards: Nordic Council Prize (1969) Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2003)
- Ph.D. from the University of Uppsala, 1964
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Highlighted titles are under review at the complete review
- Kristallögat - novel, 1961
- Färdvägen - novel, 1963
- The Magnetist's Fifth Winter - novel, 1964 (Magnetisörens femte vinter, trans. Paul Britten Austei (1989))
- The Legionnaires - novel, 1968 (Legionärerna, trans. Alain Blair (1973))
- Sekonden - novel, 1971
- The Night of the Tribades - play, 1975 (Tribadernas natt, trans. Ross Shideler (1977))
- Berättelser från de inställda upprorens tid - stories, 1976
- The March of the Musicians - novel, 1978 (Musikanternas uttag, trans. Joan Tate (1985))
- Downfall - novel, 1985 (Nedstörtad ängel, trans. Anna Paterson (1986))
- Captain Nemo's Library - novel, 1991 (Kapten Nemos bibliotek, trans. Anna Paterson (1992))
- Kartritarna - non-fiction, 1992
- The Royal Physician's Visit - novel, 1999 (Livläkarens Besök, trans. Tiina Nunnally (2001))
- Lewi's Journey - novel, 2001 (Lewis resa, trans. Tiina Nunnally (2005))
- The Book about Blanche and Marie - novel, 2004 (Boken om Blanche och Marie, trans. Tiina Nunnally (2006))
- The Wandering Pine - autobiographical, 2008 (Ett annat liv, trans. Deborah Bragan-Turner (2015))
- Liknelseboken - novel, 2013
Please note that this bibliography is not necessarily complete.
Dates given are of first publication.
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Quotes
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say about Per Olov Enquist:
- "In Sweden, Per Olov Enquist is mainly referred to as a novelist. He may not be a heavyweight dramatist in the category of Lars Noren, but he is certainly one of Sweden's foremost playwrights." - Lotta Gavel Adams, World Literature Today (Summer/1995)
- "(U)nd nicht zum ersten Mal reibt man sich nach einer Enquist-Lektüre die Augen und wundert sich über das Stockholmer Nobelpreiskomitee. Das wird bald wieder die Augen schweifen lassen von Polynesien bis Andorra, um einen zweit- oder drittklassigen Lyriker oder hoch verdienten Gaukler als Preiskandidaten zu entdecken. Und beflissen übersehen, wie nah vor Augen einer schreibt, der uns Buch um Buch davon überzeugt, dass es in Literatur nicht nur um Literatur geht -- was sich auch der Preisstifter wünschte." - Reinhard Baumgart, Die Zeit (1/3/2001)
- "Per Olov Enquist, einer der bedeutendsten europäischen Erzähler der Gegenwart, hat uns anhand der Verstrickungen, Motivationen und Lebensläufe seiner unterschiedlichen Protagonisten stets auch sein Land erklärt." - Felicitas von Lovenberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (18/3/2003)
- "Niemals wird dieser Schriftsteller zum banalen Voyeur unserer Tage absteigen. Wenn Per Olov Enquist über die Liebe schreibt, und das tut er eigentlich immer, beschreibt er ihre Genese und das, was unsere abendländische Kulturgeschichte der Liebe angetan hat. Unsere Frontalkämpfe mit Blow-up-Effekt, alles nicht seine Sache !" - Verena Auffermann, Die Zeit (10/2/2005)
- "Er ist in der Literatur der sturste, raffinierteste und versierteste Forscher und Erkunder dieses schmalen, doch so allumfassenden Grenzgebiets zwischen Wissenschaft und Metaphysik, zwischen Vernunft und Wahn, zwischen Mythos und Mystik." - Peter Urban-Halle, Die Welt (26/2/2005)
- "If Marguerite Duras had written historical novels, she might have produced something resembling Per Olov Enquist's work. Like Duras, the Swedish author favors plots of passion and spare sentences" - Marcela Valdes, Bookforum (April-May, 2006)
- "In far too many historical novels, the trappings of the period hang like heavy, lead-lined drapes. We look at them, but not past them to the ruling passions and ideas that ought to drive the tale. The Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist tears down those curtains of plush and gilt to give us the illusion of an emotionally naked past." - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent (27/10/2006)
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Per Olov Enquist:Per Olov Enquist's books at the complete review:
- Per Olov Enquist at books and writers
- Profile in the Daily Telegraph
- Per Olov Enquist at Norstedts Förlag
- Per Olov Enquist issue of the Swedish Book Review
See also:
- The Book about Blanche and Marie (B+)
- Captain Nemo's Library (A-)
- Downfall (B)
- Kartritarna (A-)
- Lewi's Journey (B+)
- The Night of the Tribades (A)
- The Royal Physician's Visit (A-)
- See Index of Scandinavian literature at the complete review
- Index of other Author Pages at the complete review
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